Renowned voice actor Fred Newman will present “The Frontier of Sound Effects,” Friday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m., in French Memorial Chapel. The public is invited to attend the free performance.

Once a freckled-face, snaggle-toothed kid making sounds behind teacher’s backs, Newman grew up at the foot of storytellers in a small Georgia town.

Since then, Newman has worked as a voice actor in movies such as “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Men in Black,” and his creature sounds were used in “Harry and the Hendersons” and “Gremlins.” Newman, also a regular on Garrison’ Keiler’s radio program “A Prairie Home Companion,” created voices, music and sound effects for the long-running Nickelodeon and Disney series “Doug.” He also worked as a puppeteer with Jim Henson, hosted the children’s talk show “Livewire” on Nickelodeon, and continues to teach phonics on the PBS show “Between the Lions.”

Newman previously hosted “The New Mickey Mouse Club” when Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were Mouseketeers.

A graduate of Harvard Business School, Newman recently published MouthSounds, a book explaining how to do more than 200 vocal effects.

Newman lives in New York and Connecticut with his wife and two children.

 Newman’s visit is sponsored by the ALS Guest Lecture Series, the Hastings College Academic Dean’s Office, Perkins Library, the Hastings College Department of Music, the Communication Arts, Business and Economics Department, and the Hastings College Student Association.
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